You have to like the way they present the tables in reverse chronological order, so that anyone just giving them a cursory glance gets the impression the figures are rising. Nice try.

It's also interesting that while admissions for alcohol poisoning are falling, those for “substance abuse” (presumably glue, aerosols and drugs) are not only a couple of orders of magnitude higher, but rising - with a slight dip in '08-'09, from which no conclusion can reasonably be drawn. So where's the panic over those? Why booze?

They cannot control illegal drugs.It was estimated last year cocaine use was 1 million in the UK.The RN seized 5.5 tonnes of the stuff of the Columbian coast last year.Tip of the iceberg I suspect.If they cannot ban drugs,and they cant.Why the hell are they trying to ban fags and booze.It is doomed to failure from the outset.They are just showing their stupidity.Or posturing to pretend they are doing something about it.All this banning just makes things worse.And starts of drug wars in the third world costing lives ,very often innocent ones too.If only politicians had brains.But then again if they had brains they might well be dangerous.